By now, I’m sure you’ve heard about the Reddit protests and blackouts but what exactly is going on with Reddit? Why are people protesting and why did the pro...
A video about the effectiveness of the Reddit protest
I would have probably landed somewhere besides reddit. I considered and tried 3 different options, (Lemmy being the third) and stayed here because I was very pleased by the beehaw community. And it’s very similar to reddit, which made the transition easier.
I’m doing my best to ditch reddit, and haven’t used it since they announced the API pricing
Same! I have no problem with the smaller lemmy community. It will grow over time. Each person who comments or posts here is helping it to become a better place.
Yep, best thing you can do it post and comment. The 90:10 rule of lurkers to content creators likely applies. But critical mass requires the lurkers to stick around – because some percentage of them will eventually turn into content creators. When someone from Reddit checks out Lemmy for the first time, they’re going to evaluate based on volume of content and discussion. If the equivalents of their favourite subs are all ghost towns, they’ll just leave back for reddit. So the ratio needs to be higher to get the ball rolling.
I’m taking my own advice. On Reddit, I was fairly active. 11 year account, moderated one largish sub, 17k post karma, 200k comment karma. I still moderate that sub, because the community is important. But I’ve got a stickied post pointing to the equivalent on Lemmy.
But it’s super quiet in there, by comparison, and I cannot be the sole source of content in a community, or it just becomes me shouting down the void. This same pattern is likely repeating across the fediverse.
But there’s hope. Yesterday, two of the communities I’ve been trying to seed got their first external posts. !geology@lemmy.ca and !spacemusic@lemmy.ca.
I have partially retreated back to the message boards for my niche interests, which is nice in some respects. I do find myself craving the “mindless scroll without specific topic” experience, which lemmy is providing well enough (and I assume will only improve). My desire to discontinue reddit is 40% what is being done now and 60% what I fear/strongly suspect it will become. For me that’s enough to leave. If a search engine drops me there I might read a thread from desktop, but my days of browsing it like my father did the newspaper are over.
To be fair, if i didn’t learn about lemmy, i would be back on reddit at this point. It just kills the boredom in a way nothing else does.
I would have probably landed somewhere besides reddit. I considered and tried 3 different options, (Lemmy being the third) and stayed here because I was very pleased by the beehaw community. And it’s very similar to reddit, which made the transition easier.
I’m doing my best to ditch reddit, and haven’t used it since they announced the API pricing
Same! I have no problem with the smaller lemmy community. It will grow over time. Each person who comments or posts here is helping it to become a better place.
Yep, best thing you can do it post and comment. The 90:10 rule of lurkers to content creators likely applies. But critical mass requires the lurkers to stick around – because some percentage of them will eventually turn into content creators. When someone from Reddit checks out Lemmy for the first time, they’re going to evaluate based on volume of content and discussion. If the equivalents of their favourite subs are all ghost towns, they’ll just leave back for reddit. So the ratio needs to be higher to get the ball rolling.
I’m taking my own advice. On Reddit, I was fairly active. 11 year account, moderated one largish sub, 17k post karma, 200k comment karma. I still moderate that sub, because the community is important. But I’ve got a stickied post pointing to the equivalent on Lemmy.
But it’s super quiet in there, by comparison, and I cannot be the sole source of content in a community, or it just becomes me shouting down the void. This same pattern is likely repeating across the fediverse.
But there’s hope. Yesterday, two of the communities I’ve been trying to seed got their first external posts. !geology@lemmy.ca and !spacemusic@lemmy.ca.
I have partially retreated back to the message boards for my niche interests, which is nice in some respects. I do find myself craving the “mindless scroll without specific topic” experience, which lemmy is providing well enough (and I assume will only improve). My desire to discontinue reddit is 40% what is being done now and 60% what I fear/strongly suspect it will become. For me that’s enough to leave. If a search engine drops me there I might read a thread from desktop, but my days of browsing it like my father did the newspaper are over.